A Harp at Every Hearth

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Irish

Kilkenny Races - Rothbury Hills (5:45)

Scots

"My love is like a red, red rose", c.1800 (7:16)

English song - to listen to

improvisations - Josef Küffner March -"Lavender's Blue" (trad. English) (6:45)

English song - to sing

"One Man shall Mow my Meadow" (trad. English) - "The Dark Island" (trad. Hebrides) (8:54)

Swedish folk music - clawhammer style

Shoemaker's Wedding March (6:20)

Renaissance - dances

Cassandra, Saraband and Johannes Placketts (Jig) (1600-1650) (5:05)

Renaissance - improvisation on songs

"Now, O Now I needs must part", John Dowland, c. 1600 (3:59)

17thC - Restoration

Improvising on a bass scale with the audience - Cassandra - Mr. Porter's Delight - Lady Sand's Delight (anon, (7:18)

Improvising on a ground

improvising, as taught by renaissance masters like Christopher Simpson (4:40)

Mediæval & Early Renaissance

"Rosa das rosas" c.1250, Alfonso el sabio, and "Je demande", c. 1420, Johannes Acourt (4:15)

Further examples

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